The Secondigliano clans controlled the drug dealing hub at the Royal Residence in Castel Volturno: 11 arrests

This morning, the Carabinieri of the Mondragone Territorial Unit executed two arrest warrants, resulting in the remand of 11 people, two of whom were minors at the time of the incident.

The investigating judge of the Naples Court and the Juvenile Court signed the orders at the request of the District Anti-Mafia Directorate, uncovering an organization that had transformed a residence in Castel Volturno into a closed-air drug dealing center, replicating the criminal tactics of Scampia-Secondigliano.

The investigation, which began in the second half of 2023 after an arson attack on an apartment in the "Royal Residence," uncovered a system of military control of the territory that held dozens of families in check. The residential complex, located in the Villaggio Coppola Pineta Mare, became the scene of a criminal experiment: bringing the rules of the Neapolitan Camorra to an area previously considered a historic stronghold of the Casalesi clan.

Investigations revealed that the gang, composed of criminals originally from Secondigliano, had installed a veritable surveillance network across the ten floors of the building. Lookouts stationed on the balconies monitored every movement, creating barriers and restricted routes for anyone entering or exiting the building.

The residence's lobby served as the hub of activity, transformed into a 24-hour market where drugs were bought and sold without restraint.

The group wasn't acting alone. According to investigators, the organization had received specific "authorization" to operate from members of the Casalesi clan, the Bidognetti faction, who have controlled the Castel Volturno area for years.

This pact allowed the Neapolitans to settle in the residence, paying protection money in exchange for the freedom to deal drugs. A marriage of convenience that brought two different criminal powers together on the same goal: absolute control of Villaggio Coppola.

Violence was the glue that held this system together. Beyond the initial, intimidating and demonstrative fire, investigators documented systematic beatings ordered by the group's leaders to "educate" employees, clients, and residents into the darkest code of silence. The apartment complex's manager was targeted with arson attacks, while a Polish citizen was shot in the leg with a modified clandestine weapon, punishment for violating the gang's unwritten rules. Each incident served as a warning, each attack reinforced the terror.

Today, the "Royal Residence" can finally breathe. Families who had been held hostage for months, forced to endure drug trafficking and violence as their only daily reality, are seeing the power that kept them locked inside their homes crumble. The Carabinieri operation has dismantled not only a drug dealing hub, but a model of criminal control that threatened to export the closed drug dealing hub to other areas of Campania.